Bailey Murphy is a print and digital designer with a practice rooted in storytelling, ecologies and user experience. She loves translating design across mediums and connecting her work with different audiences. Bailey has experience in the education and not-for-profit sectors, with skills spanning print design, social media marketing and content creation. When she isn’t designing, she is off camping and bird watching from her roof-top tent with very little worries.
Mothering as Method:
A feminist approach to visual storytelling, reproductive anxiety,
and the climate crisis.
Honours Thessis for Visual Communications
Honours 2025
This research explores how reproductive and ecological anxieties intersect in a time of climate disruption. Drawing on feminist theory, Indigenous knowledge, narrative studies and multispecies ethics, it examines how stories and metaphors of mothering shape responses to environmental collapse. Through scholarship from Haraway, Sasser and Tsing, alongside narrative-rich grey literature, the work traces themes of climate grief, relational care and interdependence. The thesis proposes an expanded ecological language of mothering that extends beyond the human, positioning storytelling, emotional literacy and multispecies kinship as tools for navigating uncertainty and imagining more attentive futures.
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